Word: 15th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Sheik Yaseen el Bakri, head of some of the Old City's Arab forces: "We understand the food situation is very bad in the Jewish quarter. It will be no more than two weeks before they have to surrender. After the 15th of May, if there is no foreign interference, it will take no more than three months to solve the Palestine problem...
Then, after arranging to continue the supply of copies of TIME for the U.S. Embassy staff in Prague, TLJ waited to see what would happen to the newsstand copies of TIME'S March 1st and 8th issues, carrying accounts of the Communist coup, and the March 15th issue of LIFE International, which had a story on Prague's famed, freedom-loving Charles University. Word came on March 8 that TIME was banned for keeps from Czechoslovakian newsstands and that LIFE would henceforth be censored for "antiCommunist" content...
Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, heavy with honors, got another-this time from the students of Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School, who gave him their 15th annual Abraham Lincoln Award for outstanding public service to the City of New York...
...announcements, jokes, and gossip. "Sa-Nu" announced in its November issue that the informal dance of October 18 was a whopping success, especially since there were too many male guests present. The editors of "Sa-Nu" urged their readers, "Let's all go to the next dance on November 15th and make up that surplus." Miss Elesnor Kitchin, Social Director, remarked that the surplus--mostly Harvard students--was taken care of in short order. "The girls like Harvard men best of all," she said...
Though man has never yet succeeded in damming that river, he has created, at moments in history, a few things so enduringly peaceful that they seem independent of its red flow. The monumental art created in the 15th Century's peculiar climate has stood through all kinds of historical weather. Today huge, and sometimes forbidding, art museums hang the treasures of the Renaissance on their walls, there to be seen by several million Americans who each year visit Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum and the National Gallery in Washington. Thousands of Christmas cards, crisscrossing in the mail, carry reproductions...